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Whiskey Insurrection

the name given to a local outbreak occurgiven to a local outbreak occurring in opposition ring in opposition to the excise law addition to the general objections urged passed by Congress , March 3, 1791. In western Pennsylvania considered the against the measure, the inhabitants of tax an unfair discrimination against their region and raised an insurrection, causing President Washington to call out an army of 15,000 militia. This source on the part of the Government show of an unsuspected vigor and reshow of an unsuspected vigor and reforced the insurgents to disperse without bloodshed.

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